Part Time Science Teacher

## Description POSITION TITLE: Science Teacher SUPERVISED BY: Assistant Principal of Academics FLSA STATUS: 60% Part Time, Non-Exempt, 10 month EFFECTIVE DATE: August 1, 2026 COMPENSATION: $53.82-$84.54 placement is based on education and previous years experience **Mission Statement:** Inspired by the Daughters of Charity and the De La Salle Christian Brothers, in partnership with families, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory’s mission is to provide the finest education in an inclusive Catholic community of faith. We prepare our students to be service-oriented leaders with a commitment to living the Gospel. Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory (SHC) is a Lasallian Vincentian Catholic, co-educational college preparatory secondary school located in the heart of San Francisco, California. We provide academically rigorous, vibrant learning grounded in social justice and student-centered pedagogy. Our community is committed to cultivating each student’s unique abilities and passions, and to facilitating opportunities for students to discern and realize their individual intellectual, artistic, athletic, social, and spiritual potential. SHC is a San Francisco Archdiocesan High School that is cosponsored by the De La Salle Christian Brothers of the District of San Francisco and the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul of the Province of the West. As an inclusive Catholic community of faith, we respect and support our students, faculty, and staff and their sense of belonging in an increasingly diverse world. At SHC, such respect is grounded by our mission and carried out through our Lasallian Vincentian Catholic educational traditions. In these efforts, we prepare our students as future leaders to model our credo, “Enter to Learn, Leave to Serve.” **Position Summary** This is a 3/5 (60% FTE) position, teaching preparatory life science classes and AP Environmental Science. May be combined with other duties on campus. This is an on campus, in-person position. **Responsibilities and Duties** - Model for students the characteristics of a Lasallian/Vincentian educator; - Promote SHC’s mission, philosophy and [Integral Student Outcomes](https://www.shcp.edu/about-shc/expected-schoolwide-learning-results) - Facilitate student formulation and investigation of questions about the natural world through a variety of discovery labs, shared inquiry, individual research, and scientific data creation and analysis; - In collaboration with Science Department colleagues and per the department goals (listed at https://www.shcp.edu/academics/category/science-department): - - Design and implement standards-based lessons to facilitate critical thinking and mastery of essential skills and understandings as determined by teachers of same prep; - Plan and implement what students will learn, how they will learn, and how they will be assessed in a manner appropriate to the grade level; - Provide regular and varied assessments of student learning to compile accurate grades and properly determine what and how all students are learning; - Maintain an interactive learning environment, in both physical and virtual learning spaces; - Communicate proactively and consistently with students, parents, and school personnel; - Keep current and complete digital grading and attendance records; - Collaborate in the school’s cocurricular activities, service learning, and retreat programs; - Engage in professional development, especially our four-year New Faculty Professional Development and Support Program, becoming a reflective and growth-minded practitioner who integrates best and next teaching practices rooted in the SHC mission; - Actively participate in SHC’s strategic initiatives to strengthen meaningful diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging practices, especially strategies to support equitable learning, culturally responsive teaching, social emotional learning, and universal design for learning; - Strengthen the mission of SHC and the charisms of the Daughters…